Al-Assad-Putin telephone discussions

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received a telephone call last evening from President of Federal Russia, Vladimir Putin and discussed the political situation in the region and the Syrian cooperation with the UN Investigation Commission.

Meantime, Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa received a telephone call this evening from his Russian counterpart, Sergi Lavrov. Talks covered similar grounds, and the role of Russia as a friendly country particularly that it is chairing the Security Council this month. Lavrov for his part expressed appreciation over Syria's cooperation with the international commission investigating the assassinations of Lebanon's prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri.